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Brexit Law - the way ahead

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Seminars

Breakfast seminar: Will the English scheme still be the procedure of choice post-Brexit? - Tuesday 25 September 2018

Through the use of a simple case study, Jennifer Marshall, Partner, and Lucy Aconley, Senior Associate, from A&O’s Restructuring & Insolvency team, considered the impact of Brexit on European cross-border insolvency and restructuring proceedings (including the English scheme of arrangement). Consideration was given to where Brexit discussions seem to be heading in this area, what other sources of cross-border insolvency law will remain available, and how Brexit might impact on some of the choice of law safe-harbours that are important to those structuring transactions.Brexit seminar – Managing implementation – Thursday 6 September 2018

We hosted a panel discussion in our London office focusing on what firms affected by Brexit need to consider regarding how and when to transfer businesses into new operating entities. Clients were able to hear A&O’s experience on the key legal issues, risks and challenges for financial services businesses in implementing their Brexit contingency plans.

The panel consisted of A&O partners Nick Bradbury (Banking), Duncan Bellamy (Corporate), Bob Penn (Banking), and Tom Roberts (Capital Markets) who shared their understanding of the applicable transfer mechanisms, the implications for legacy as well as new business, and how best to approach repapering.

Brexit – One year to go – Tuesday 13 March 2018

We hosted a breakfast panel discussion 'Brexit - One year to go' covering the key legal issues, risks and challenges for financial services businesses in preparation for Britain’s exit from the EU at our London office.

The panel for this event consisted of A&O partners Kate Sumpter (London), Brice Henry (Paris), Alexander Behrens (Frankfurt) and Damian Carolan (London). The panel were also joined by Xavier Parain, Managing Director in charge of the Asset Management Directorate of the AMF in France.

A series of seminars for U.S. companies on the potential implications arising from Brexit - hosted in partnership with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce

Allen & Overy’s Washington, DC office partnered with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the world’s largest business lobbying group, to present a series of seminars for U.S. companies on the potential implications arising from Brexit.

Washington, DC partner Charles Borden worked with London counsel Sarah Garvey and Karen Birch of the Brexit Working Group to recruit lawyers from around the firm’s global network to present on key topics that the UK and the EU will have to address during the Brexit negotiations, including: impacts on tariffs, trade, taxes, data protection/transfers, antitrust issues, intellectual property, environmental regulations, and commercial contracts.

Descriptions of the completed webinars and links to the presentations are here.

Client calls

Key immediate implications of the UK’s vote to leave the EU – Friday 24 June 2016

We held a client briefing call to highlight the key immediate issues that parties are likely to face and the steps that our clients may wish to consider taking in the next few weeks. Please see our call script document for a summary of the points discussed on the call. To listen to a full recording of this call, please follow this link to the A&O YouTube channel.

Should Brexit affect the popularity of English governing law and the English courts? - Thursday 21 July 2016

We held a client briefing call on Thursday 21 July 2016, repeated on Wednesday 27 July 2016, to consider whether clients should change their approach to including English governing law and English jurisdiction clauses in their commercial contracts. Please see our post-vote call script document for a summary of the points discussed on the call. To listen to a full recording of this call, please follow this link to the A&O YouTube channel.